Combined umbrella and cane



G.E.VDUTTON.' Combined Umbrella, and Cane.

Patented Aug. 31,1880;

INVEN'l 0R ATTORNEYS I WITNESSES:

NJ'ETERS, PHOTOLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D40.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFF! GEORGE E. DUTTON, OFJOHNSONS GREEK, NEW YORK.

COMBINED UMBRELLA AND CANE,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,660, dated August 31, 1880.

Application filed December 27, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. DUTTON, of J ohnsons Creek, Niagara Jcounty, State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Umbrella-Cane, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved umbrella-cane, which can be used as a cane and as an umbrella, and which is simple in construction and convenient in use.

The invention consists in a hollow tapering cane containing a folded umbrella-top, which can be mounted on the cane to serve as an umbrella, and which is provided with a guiding-thimhle having an elongation or pivoted catch, which catch or hook holds the umbrella open when the same is mounted on the cane.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a crosssectional view of the umbrellatop mounted on the cane. Fig.2 shows alongitudinal sectional elevation of the cane containin g the folded umbrella. Fig. 3 shows an elevation of the cane, and Fig. dis a detail view of the point of the cane and the center piece of the umbrella-top frame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The cane A is made of metal, wood, paper, hard rubber, or any other suitable material,is hollow, and is slightly tapered fromthe top downward, is then nearly straight, and then tapers outward to form thehead of the cane. The head of the cane is provided with a screwcap, B, which forms the handle, in case the cane is used as such, or as an umbrella-stick, and is of sufficient size to contain the thimble K of the umbrellaframe. The smaller end of the cane is provided with a pin, 0, which has two screw-threads, D and E, the former near the point of the pin and the latter at the base of the pin, where the same has a greater diameter. A threaded ferrule, F, covers the smaller end of the cane and is screwed into the thread E of the pin 0. An umbrella-top, G, formed of the ribs H, hinged to the center piece, I, and braced by the stretchers J, hinged to the ribs H and to the thimble K, provided with an elongation, L, terminating in a hook,

. M, fits into the hollow of the cane. This frame 5 is covered with silk, cotton, or some other suitable material. The center piece, I, is provided with an outside screw-thread, N, corresponding to the thread E of the pin 0, and an inner screw-thread, 0, corresponding to the thread D. It is also provided with an annular flange, 1?, provided with recesses in which the ribs H H are pivoted. The end of the cane is provided with an annular shoulder, Q.

The operation is as follows: The umbrellatop G being contained in the cane A, as shown in Fig. 2, the cap B is unscrewed and the umbrella taken out of the cane, and the cap B is screwed onto the cane again. The ferrule F is unscrewed from the smaller end of the cane, the top is opened, and the smaller end of the cane is passed through the thimble K, and the pin 0 is screwed into the cavity in the center piece, I, the'screw-threads D and 0 takingin each other, and the ferrule F is screwed onto the center piece, I. The thimble K is then pushed upward until the hook M of the elongation L of the thimble can catch on the aunular shoulder Q, thus preventing the thimble K from descending and the top G from c01- lapsing.

By performing the above operation in the inverse order the umbrella can be folded and placed in the cane.

The elongation L need not be rigidly attached to the thimble K, but can be hinged to the same, or may be replaced by a spring-catch.

The frame will preferably be made as light as possible, to decrease the thickness and weight of the cane. The cane and umbrella may be of any desired size or pattern.

This top does not require a center stick, but the cane itself performs the functions of the umbrella-stick.

In taking the umbrella-top out of or inserting it in the cane it should always beturned from left to right. The umbrella is to be placed in a case of paper or likematerial before being passed into the cane, in order to prevent it from shaking in the cane and protect it from injury while putting it in and taking it out of 5 too struoted, substantially as herein shown and de- E, of the center piece, I, provided with the IO scribed, with the screw-threads N and O, and screw-threads N and O, snbstantiallyvas herein 4 the annular flange P, as set forth.

shown and described, and for the purpose set 2. In a cane-umbrella, the combination of i forth.

the pin 0, having the screw-threads D and E, with the cane A, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In aoane-uinbrella, the combination, with the pin (3, provided with the screw-threads D GEORGE EPHRAIM DUTTON.

Witnesses:

M. E. ALLBRIGHT, E. M. DUTTON. 

